TOMMY REDUX
Thirty-one years after its Broadway premiere, “The Who’s Tommy” gets revived on Broadway, revisited by its original director Dennis...
ROMANCE BESTSELLERS INTO BROADWAY MUSICALS: THE NOTEBOOK and WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
Within weeks of each other, two musicals arrived on Broadway, both based on bestselling romantic novels that were also box office hits...
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: AT LONG LAST, WHOLE
(This review was written for BLICKPUNKT MUSICAL, the German magazine on international musical theatre for which Mr. Dwyer is US...
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
There is little music so emotionally and kinetically infectious than Cuban music and song. Their delirious effect that sears the soul...
HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO
It’s always nice to see Broadway history being made, which is the case with How to Dance in Ohio. It’s not only the first musical whose...
THE GARDENS OF ANUNCIA
Off-Broadway, at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center, was a sweet - if not unduly modest - musical, The Gardens of Anuncia,...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S OLD FRIENDS - Gielgud Theatre, London
On a recent quick visit to London, I had just two evenings for theater. Serendipitously, I saw two outstanding productions that feature...
GUYS & DOLLS - Bridge Theatre, London
On a recent quick visit to London, I had just two evenings for theater. Serendipitously, I saw two outstanding productions that feature...
GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!? Nope.
Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, whose Broadway breakthrough starring roles were in “The Book of Mormon '' are real performers and bankable...
OUR TOWN - Sharon Playhouse
Sharon Playhouse has mounted a wondrous production of OUR TOWN, my favorite American drama, and, arguably, one of the best plays of the...
